[78-L] the end of the Great Singers Era

[Don Cox]

On 28/04/2014, rjh334578gmail wrote:

> Joe, I really appreciate your taking the time and effort to log these
> numbers for us.
> 
> Here we have the metric by which we can quantify the Rock Era and we
> find out it took until 1967 to achieve 50% of the # 1 hits. That means
> the Great Singers Era lasted a lot longer than 1955 or 1960.
> 
Judging from my record collection and my recollections, it lasted until
at least 1965.

And Simon and Garfunkel, who are I think nearer to the "great singers"
tradition than to rock, were in their first wave of mass popularity in
1966-7.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox at enterprise.net